Set "From" based on "To" when replying

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Fri Feb 3 03:54:07 PST 2012


On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:35:10 +0100, Simon Campese <notmuchmail_org at campese.de> wrote:
> Dear Community,
> 
> I've got my own domain and when registering or shopping at some website,
> I always use email addresses of the form "websitename at mydomain.org", so
> for example I use "amazon at mydomain.org" when shopping at amazon. The
> reason for this is categorizing incoming mail on the one hand, and
> immediately being able to spot the source of spam on the other hand. 
> 
> I would like to implement the following behaviour: When replying to a
> mail that has "something at mydomain.org" in the "To"-header, I would like
> to have the "From"-header of the reply to be automatically set to this
> address. 
> 
> Is there some kind of reply-hook in notmuch where one could put an
> appropriate function? 

You could (also) check this (or some other with same name)

https://github.com/altruizine/gnus-alias/blob/master/gnus-alias.el

( should not be gnus-spesific )

I've planned to take a look and write a wiki page but I don't
promise doing any of that soon...

> Thank you very much for your help,
> 
> Simon

Tomi


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